K-pop’s Amber Liu of f(x) on feeling like a fish out of water, working out more and finally learning to take care of herself
- Liu has used 2020 to improve herself, from sleeping more to eating healthily. Her reason for working out? She ‘fell in love’ with a character’s arms in a game
- The K-pop singer has taken a step back from the internet to focus more on living in the moment and to work on a follow-up to her previous EP release, ‘X’
Singer Amber Liu has decided it’s time to learn to take care of herself, more than a decade after she first got her start in K-pop girl group f(x) in 2009. “I’m actually trying to sleep these days,” she tells the Post. “I put my phone on ‘do not disturb’ mode now.”
Her latest venture? Educational forms of entertainment, including providing the Korean voice on the language learning app Drops, and hosting an explainer web series titled I’ll Ask the Stupid Questions, which airs on audience-participation-focused streaming service Ficto.
Speaking after the launch of her Drops feature, Liu reflects on how she learned Korean. She went to South Korea as a teenager and became a member of what many consider to be one of the most artistically outstanding K-pop girl groups of all time. f(x) went on a hiatus in 2019.
Liu decided to work with Drops because of the way it had “gamified” language learning. She says the app offers a low-pressure way to learning vocabulary in comparison to her own years of study.
